"Hop to it, Rabbit! I'm five teeth ahead!" I told him as I kept up with him. He may not have liked me, but as I flew beside him, I realized we had something in common. We loved running, flying, racing, and the thrill of the wind rushing past us.

"Yeah right! Look, I'd tell ya to stay out of my way, but really what's the point? 'Cause you won't be able to keep up anyway!"

'Is he seriously...?' My eyes went wide and my heart lit up with Joy at the implication of his words. "Is that a challenge, Cottontail?"

His smirk grew dangerously into a wicked grin. "Ooh, you don't wanna race a rabbit, mate." He laughed out as he sped up and went from house to house.

"Whoa!" I shouted in surprise. Then, I heard North's voice grow with excitement and my heart felt warm as everyone started to have fun.

"Is it a race? Is it a race? This is going to be epic!"

"Four bicuspids over there! An incisor two blocks east! Is that a molar? They're everywhere!" She shouted excitedly as I watched her accidentally slam into a sign, making me wince. "Ugh!"

"You okay?" I asked her out of pure concern. 'Please say you're okay...that looked like it hurt...'

"I'm fine!" She told me as she rolled her eyes and let go of her nose. "Sorry..." She told me as she flew up to me. 'Wow...beautiful...' I thought briefly before she started to continue. "...it's been a really long time since I've been out in the field."

"How long is a long time?" I wondered with a smirk.

"Four hundred and forty years, give or take?" She answered shyly before she squealed and went after another Tooth.

I glanced over at Baby Tooth with a questioning look and she shrugged, showing a hint of embarrassment. "Hey don't look at me! She overworks herself."

We continued to watch the vision showing us racing and then it showed us holding our bags up proudly, only for Tooth to tell us to go back and leave gifts. After we competed at doing that, the vision sent us to where Tooth and I were in Jamie's room. "Left central incisor, knocked out in a freak sledding accident. I wonder how that could have happened, Jack?" She told me with a risen brow and a knowing look.

I chuckled lightly as I looked at Jamie's drawing of the sledding incident. "Kids, huh?"

I watched as Tooth spun a coin through her fingers without any hesitation or error as she gave me a smirk, and then she slipped it under his pillow. She then hovered over him to look at his sleeping face. "This was always the part I liked most...seeing the kids." She crossed her arms and let out a sigh while I crouched down next to the bed. "Why did I ever stop doing this?"

"Hmm. Looks a little different up close, huh?"

She gave me a quick and appreciative smile as she flew towards me. "Thanks for being here, Jack. I wish I'd known about your memory. I could of helped you."

"Yeah, well, look let's just get you taken care of, then it's Pitch's turn." I told her with determination.

"Here you are!" I heard North say as he squeezed through Jamie's window.

"Ssh!" Tooth scolded him as she pointed at Jamie.

"Oh!" North breathed out as he immediately understood. "What gives, slowpokes? How you feeling, Toothy?"

"Believed in."

North grinned from ear to ear as he lightly nodded his head. "Hah! That's what I want to hear."

"Oh, I see how it is. All working together to make sure the rabbit gets last place." Bunny said as he hopped out of his hole.

"Ssh!" North and Tooth scolded him next.

"Uh, you think I need help to beat a bunny?" I took out my bag of teeth and shook it at him. "Check it out, Peter Cottontail!"

"You call that a bag'a choppers?" He then took out his bag which was admittedly bigger than mine. "Now that's a bag'a choppers."

"Gentlemen, gentlemen, this is about Tooth, it's not a competition...but if it was..." North slammed down his bag which was indeed the largest, and gave a victorious smile. "I win! YEE-HA!" A flashlight clicked and shined on North and all of his dancing stopped. I stared to look at an awake Jamie and heard North squeak, "Oh no."

"Santa Claus? the Easter Bunny? Sandman! the Tooth Fairy! I knew you'd come!"

"Surprise! We came!"

"He can see us?" I asked, feeling a twinge of hope and excitement which Bunny must've caught onto, because he was the one that leaned over and answered my question.

"Most of us." He told me, and I began to frown. 'Right...of course...it can't be that easy now can it...?'

"Ssh, you guys! He's still awake!" Tooth mentioned.

"Sandy, knock him out!" Sandy nodded his head and pounded his fist together, and it seemed I was the only one that knew he was joking because Bunny rolled his eyes and breathed out, "With the dream sand, ya Gumbies!" At Bunny's voice, the dog in the room woke up and began growling at Bunny.

"No stop, that's the Easter Bunny! What're you doing, Abby? Down!"

"Alright, nobody panic."

"But that's a um, that's a greyhound. Do you know what greyhounds do to rabbits?"

"Well I think it's a pretty safe bet he's never met a rabbit like me. Six-foot-one, nerves of steel, Master of Tai Chi, and..." As both Sandy and I grew quickly irritated with his boasting I tapped my staff against the alarm clock, setting off Abbey the Greyhound. "...Crikey!"

"Stop! Wait! Slow down!"

I watched with great amusement as Sandy had accidentally lost the ball, and it started hitting everyone until they were all out. As North plopped onto Jamie's bed, it launched the kid into the air, and straight into Sandy's arms. "Whoops." I said as I then noticed Bunny's carrots grew arms and legs and started using the candy canes of North's dream as a dancing tool. "Oh I really wish I had a camera right now." Suddenly I heard a bray behind me. I turned around as fast as I could, and noticed a nightmare horse was just outside the window. I quickly went after it and shouted out to Sandy, "Sandy, come on! We can find Pitch!"

Sandy stepped over Tooth and looked back at the others with a thoughtful glance. "Should I stay and wake them up?" He thought to himself, and I didn't know he had thought it. "Nah! They'll be fine." He thought as he jumped out the window."

"Jack?" Bunny asked me.

"Stop." I told the vision. "I can hear Sandy's thoughts too...I just don't know how though, because I wasn't able to at first..." I mentioned as I rubbed the back of my head.

"Sandy?" North questioned curiously and concernedly as he crossed his arms.

"I..." Sandy started with his symbols as he turned to me. "...may have...I may have given you the ability to understand my thoughts...on accident."

"And how did that happen?"

"Well...typically...once someone touched the dream sand they start getting drowsy or fall asleep, because once it's touched the sand searches for the eyes of the one that touched it, but because you're a spirit and I didn't put it directly into your eyes...and I continued to ALLOW you to play with the dream sand...it kind of became a part of you too. Not in the same way it is with me, but it's why you can hear my thoughts."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Honestly? I have no idea. It just never came up, and I liked the company..."

"Alright...I can understand that."

"Thank you, Jack."

"You're welcome." I smiled at him confidently. "Let's continue."

"Pretty!" She said in awe of the snow globe. She then noticed Bunny sleeping on North's arm and immediately got excited. "Bunny! Hop hop hop! Ooh!" She said the last word as she tripped over Abbey and the snow globe fell out of her hands. She stared at the portal with the light of it reflecting into her eyes and she walked through without any hesitation as she continued to giggle.

The scene blinked to Sandy catching up to me. "Having fun Jack!?" He laughed out at me through his thoughts.

"Yes!" I told him with a hard chuckle. We both separated at some point and I chased down a nightmare all the way to a roof, and shot electric ice at it. "I-I got it! Sandy! Did you see that!?" I jumped up to look at it and when my staff hit it, more static came off of it. "Look at this thing."

"Frost?" I heard from behind me and shot electric ice towards the voice, but it darted out of the way. "You know, for a neutral party, you spend an awful lot of time with those weirdos." He practically growled out, but in a calmer voice, told me, "This isn't your fight, Jack." He sent a slight smirk as he stood there while Pitch screamed on the inside, 'You bastards! How dare you lie to him! You want to kill him!'

"You made it my fight when you stole those teeth!"

"Teeth? Why do you care about the teeth?" He looked to his side and noticed Sandy, but seemed to be a bit jumpy around him. "Now this is who I'm looking for."

Sandy brought out his sand whips and Pitch dodges them, eventually bringing out his giant scythe. Sandy caught the scythe's handle and jerked Pitch into the air, then down into the street below, forcing Pitch to bounce off of a car roof and into the street. "Remind me not to get on your bad side." We both made our way down to the street, and I can't remember the last time Sandy was ever this mad.

"Okay, easy! You can't blame me for trying, Sandy! You don't know what it's like to be weak, and hated! It was stupid of me, to mess with your dreams." We watched as he stands himself up, holding a finger up. "So, I'll tell you what..." He then looked at us with a dangerous overconfident smirk. "You can have them back." He spat out, and Pitch on the inside was still trying to fight. 'No! Sanderson! Protect Jack! There's too many!'

The nightmares started to surround us, and we stood back to back. "You...take the ones on the left, I'll take the ones on the right?" Sandy shrugged at me before turning his attention to Pitch.

"Boo!" Pitch says and instantly the nightmares took off after us. We start to fight them, but North's sleigh passed overhead, crashing into things, and apparently, North, Tooth, and Bunny kept dozing off due to the Dream sand. After another scrape on the top of a building, they all woke up again.

Sandy then used his sand to burst into the air like a rocket taking off, holding onto me tightly just before throwing me into the air. "GO JACK! FIGHT!" I knocked a few Nightmares away, but I fell a little before Tooth picked me back up and we both went spiraling through Nightmare horses.

Bunny jumped off the sleigh, attacking during free fall, before landing on the street to slash through some Nightmare horses as he threw his boomerang at them and bashed them with his feet. Then, he jumped back into the air to latch onto the sleigh, and to my surprise he started driving while North started to attack with his swords from the front. While they were doing that, two Nightmare horses came after me, so I just dropped through the air and let them run into each other. Another Nightmare horse attacked and hit me in the side, forcing me to lose my staff. I felt a sharp and horrible pain as I started falling and realized that I was indeed falling, and I couldn't fly, so I started grasping for it during my free fall. Once I caught it I landed back on the sleigh. Once my feet were firmly planted I heard Bunny to the side of me. "You might wanna duck." I looked to where his gaze was going, and quickly ducked like he said as his boomerang came careening back through a Nightmare horse, and with widened eyes, I watched him catch it out of thin air, giving me the most confident grin I had ever seen.

Meanwhile, I looked up and noticed Sandy was on his own on his sand cloud, being surrounded by Nightmare sand. "We gotta help Sandy!" North drove the sleigh towards Sandy immediately

Pitch then pulled the string of an invisible bow, using an arrow shaped out of black sand and aimed at Sandy. Once he released it, it hit Sandy right between the shoulder blades. "NO!" Without thinking I launched myself off the sleigh and towards Sandy.

Pitch started laughing manically as he said, "Don't fight the fear, little man."

"Hurry! Hurry!" North told me, and I sped up as much as I could.

"I'd say sweet dreams, but there aren't any left." Pitch told him, but on the inside the real Pitch was shouting, 'NO! SANDERSON! HOW DARE YOU KILL HIM!?' He shouted to the darkness, but it merely laughed at him. 'It tears their will to go on and your own. I'm trying to get rid of you, remember? Hurry up and relinquish control, and you won't be tormented anymore while I gain full control.'

Sandy stood up, closed his eyes, and the swirling black sand closed in on his glowing yellow light, snuffing it out. "Sandy?" North gasped in shock.

"No...NO!" I shouted, but in the memory, at my shout, I could hear Pitch thinking, 'NO! JACK! DON'T! HE JUST KILLED SANDY! YOU CAN'T...!' His words died off as the nightmares enclosed around me, and I created a sonic boom with all the fury and wrath I had. I glowed so bright it almost looked like daylight in the middle of the sky. Then, I slammed my hands together, and could hear Pitch gasp, 'Jack!?'

I started falling back, slightly unconscious, but I could still hear North shout in complete and utter worry, "Jack!" Tooth caught me as I fell, and she set me down in the sleigh

"Jack, h-how did you do that?" She questioned as she quickly looked me over and especially at my staff.

"I...I-I didn't know I could." I told her honestly as I looked at my staff in shock.